Bateman Pimps Aniston for 'Arrested Development'

With confirmation from Mitchell Hurwitz that there will be an Arrested Development movie and that he's about to dive in and complete the half-finished script, Jason Bateman is taking an opportunity to suggest his latest co-star for a role.

Discussing his new comedy The Switch with MTV, Bateman said of Jennifer Aniston, "Yeah, actually, there's a real good part for her in the Arrested Development movie." "There's no offers on this one. She's gonna have to sing for her supper," Bateman added. "I don't know, we'll see if she's available. She's busy. She's pretty famous; I don't know if you've heard of her. She's pretty backed up. Hopefully the guy who's in charge will like her for that part because I'm going to suggest her."

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Scott Bakula Says We'll See a 'Quantum Leap' Movie

I'm just thinking that if an A-Team movie lost money, a Quantum Leap film may not be a sound idea financially. And yet...

Blastr reports that Scott Bakula told the 600 or so fans in attendance for the Comic-Con panel A Leap of Faith: A Quantum Leap Retrospective that a movie adaptation is indeed in the works. If nothing else, that's unexpected.

"The good news is that [Donald P. Bellisario] is working on the film script and has a big time Hollywood producer who wants to do it...It's about time. But what I always thought would happen, happened...[Bakula is now too old for the role]. But [Dean Stockwell] and I will have a part in it somehow.

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'Saw' Sequels Writers Approaching 'The Outer Limits'

As bad as it is over at MGM, the company is still moving forward. Not on everything, of course; James Bond is in limbo, I'm not committing to anything Hobbit for the time being, RoboCop and Poltergeist are probably dead, and Red Dawn may be shoved to next year or something. So - surprise, surprise - here comes another project the studio probably can't finish.

Variety reveals that the billions-in-debt MGM has hired Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan, writers of better than half the Saw franchise, to put a new spin on the 1960s TV series, The Outer Limits. It was a reaction to The Twilight Zone, which was certainly the better and more enduring program, but I do have some fond memories of the occasional Outer Limits episode, as well. The show featured some big names, in retrospect: Harlan Ellison, Robert Towne, Joseph Stefano, Conrad L. Hall. However, it barely made it to the two-season mark and then lived on in syndication. You can watch all the episodes on the Hulu if you're so inclined.

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'Arrested Development' Movie Halfway Written

Only because it's interesting to stay up-to-date on this project and not because I actually believe it's any closer to happening than it was six months or a year ago, but the Arrested Development movie is halfway written, according to the show's creator Mitchell Hurwitz.

"The reason I've been so cagey is fans have been so (eager about it)," Hurwitz said. "I really want to do it. Jason Bateman gave an interesting quote recently saying 'when we get it, we'll read it and decide if we want to do it (Hurwitz gives 'What? Really?' look)." Just this weekend, Michael Cera - the original naysayer about the movie adaptation - said he believed it was happening sooner than later, based on what he'd heard, and that, combined with this statement from Hurwitz, makes Arrested Development topical again.

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'Yogi Bear' Poster Showcases Lame CGI

Live-action and CGI marriages are delicate beasts. I'm not referring to live-action films that incorporate CGI, but the ones with some human characters that are interacting with clearly phony characters that the humans in the film - and the humans paying to see it - are expected to believe are real. Enter Yogi Bear, which has debuted a new poster. Yeah, there's a lot I don't like about this, beginning with Dan Aykroyd, whose selection in scripts is reproachable. And look at that CGI. That's not Yogi Bear; that's one of those animatronic musicians from the old Rock-a-fire Explosion, or, if you prefer, Chuck E. Cheese. What's wrong with Hanna Barbera animation here? Oh, that's right: That kind of animation doesn't sell, but these weak Alvin and the Chipmunks off-shoots are pure gold. Ugh. Well, if we get nothing else out of it, at least we know this movie's coming out at Christmas (actually December 17th).